OCCURRENCE

UMNH Reptiles and Amphibians Collection (Arctos)

Latest version published by Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) on 29 March 2023 Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH)
The herpetology collection includes more than 20,000 specimens of reptiles and amphibians from Western North America, MesoAmerica, and Australia. Collection includes important early material from the Intermountain West, from research directed primarily by Angus Woodbury. Collection also includes turtles representing the research of John Legler.
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Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 22,431 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    22431
  • ResourceRelationship 
    22431
  • Multimedia 
    0

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Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) Reptiles and Amphibians Collection

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3ca53690-d42a-4b49-9f7d-e247d8eee7a5.  Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Eric Rickart
Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
84108 Salt Lake City
UT
US
+1 (801) 585-7759
https://nhmu.utah.edu

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Eric Rickart
Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
84108 Salt Lake City
UT
US
+1 (801) 585-7759
https://nhmu.utah.edu

Who filled in the metadata:

Katrina Derieg
Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
84108 Salt Lake City
UT
US
+1 (801) 585-7759
https://nhmu.utah.edu

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Point Of Contact
Dusty McDonald
Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
http://arctos.database.museum

Geographic Coverage

Approximately half of the collection is from the Intermountain West, including early records of historical importance assembled by Angus Woodbury and his students. Later work by John Legler and students led to the development of major holdings from Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Australia, and one of the largest collections of turtle specimens in North America.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

The collection includes 11 type specimens (4 holotypes and 7 paratypes) of reptiles.

Class  Amphibia,  Reptilia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1900-01-01 / 2000-01-01

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 3ca53690-d42a-4b49-9f7d-e247d8eee7a5
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=umnh_herps